Recounting the 1964 Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley as lived then and seen now by participants on all sides, this musical is the anti-Hair and the anti-Big Chill: These kids have haircuts and their later selves are not chilled, just older, maybe wiser or maybe a little world-weary. FSM takes 60s politics seriously. It celebrates the joy, moral purpose, newborn freedom and occasional absurdity of being young, part of a movement and passionately political, from a distance that takes account of the consequences.